<![CDATA[One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like.]]>One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like.

I tend to view RPGs as social activities and so you solve problems with your group the same way you'd solve problems in your five-a-side football group: A bit of leadership and communication.

RPGs tend to view these as insurmountable problems. You can't talk to Derek about only playing Laserface BUT you can make it against the rules to play Laserface and assume Derek will obey.

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For the curious, the subheadings are:

Be open and honest about your schedule

Show up on time and stay for the duration

Participate

Share the spotlight

State and respect boundaries

Think in the long term

Play willing detectives and ask for fun mysteries to solve

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/pteryx/statuses/116406004442813403https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/pteryx/statuses/116406004442813403Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:57:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:55:41 GMT]]>@Printdevil @RogerBW @Taskerland
To be fair, my manuscript has five pages of "Responsibilities of a Player" that boil down to how I define "don't be a dick in RP" writ large... but it's in the introduction, not the rules per se.

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@vortiwife @shimminbeg @Taskerland @RogerBW

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404539827920830https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404539827920830Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:45:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:43:23 GMT]]>"Murder at the Ninja Conference" is lets face it a fabulous convention game.

You would magnetise people from almost every walk of gaming life.

@RogerBW @Taskerland @shimminbeg

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404532272682160https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404532272682160Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:43:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:37:06 GMT]]>@Printdevil @RogerBW @BigJackBrass @Taskerland working up a tactical map of the bridge of sighs rn

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]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/cumush/statuses/116404507520680575https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/cumush/statuses/116404507520680575Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:37:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:45:24 GMT]]>@Taskerland @Printdevil @vortiwife i been furloughed
all my pointing apes gone

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/cumush/statuses/116404304260869406https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/cumush/statuses/116404304260869406Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:45:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:36:13 GMT]]>@Taskerland @Printdevil @shimminbeg Oh, the _Journal_ is terribly serious. After hours at the conference, that's another matter.

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116404268110425675https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116404268110425675Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:36:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:32:14 GMT]]>@Printdevil I thought about The Journal of Ninja Studies Being nothing but essays about 1980s martial films in which a load of Filipino stuntmen pretend to be Japanese.

"Editor in Chief, the Emeritus Professor of Ninja Studies..." and then it's that photo from the old Real Ultimate Power except it's an old man in a tweed jacket in a dumpster with some nun chucks. @shimminbeg @RogerBW

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Taskerland/statuses/116404252445459748https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Taskerland/statuses/116404252445459748Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:32:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:24:31 GMT]]>@Printdevil @shimminbeg @Taskerland @RogerBW

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]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://retro.pizza/users/vortiwife/statuses/116404222110089341https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://retro.pizza/users/vortiwife/statuses/116404222110089341Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:24:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:19:59 GMT]]>@Printdevil @shimminbeg @Taskerland But they can all agree that day-glo pyjamas are an Abomination.

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116404204290992800https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116404204290992800Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:19:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:11:32 GMT]]>"has learnt Japanese from some maniac's translations of popular live-action superhero shows"

@shimminbeg @Taskerland @RogerBW @vortiwife

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404171075533358https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404171075533358Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:11:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:06:48 GMT]]>My counter position is the Film Studies graduate who obsessed about Ninjamania boom, and ended up getting the Social-Anthro position, and now finds themselves having to play the role of seriously political theorist and historian in the plots of the game, despite having fallen asleep during "Ninja III: the Domination"

Which actually is a very solid character for an RPG as we do all love a wastrel.

@shimminbeg @Taskerland @RogerBW

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404152469922349https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404152469922349Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:06:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:03:55 GMT]]>@RogerBW @shimminbeg @Printdevil @Taskerland Ah, an interesting classification.

You know, Wittgenstein had many thoughts on this matter.

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://mastodon.social/users/DarkestKale/statuses/116404141108006378https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://mastodon.social/users/DarkestKale/statuses/116404141108006378Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:03:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:52:06 GMT]]>Jinx

@shimminbeg @Taskerland @RogerBW

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404094675804514https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404094675804514Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:52:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:51:46 GMT]]>@Printdevil @Taskerland @RogerBW An advantage of the latter is you can have an academic with extensive knowledge about Japanese theatrical history, historical anthropology, evolution of stereotypes through Japanophile popular media, cultural soft power, the nuances of Sengoku-era social change and its depiction in literature etc. but the university's marketing really needed a headline so guess who's Professor of Ninjutsu Studies now, and hates it.

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://masto.ai/users/shimminbeg/statuses/116404093321648438https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://masto.ai/users/shimminbeg/statuses/116404093321648438Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:51:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:51:43 GMT]]>B.A. thesis

"“Stealth and Strategy: From Shinobi to Modern Intelligence”

or

"The Films of Sho Kosugi as a VHS marketing strategy"

Possible M.A. in

"Black fabric fashion choices in the Sengoku period"

@shimminbeg @Taskerland @RogerBW

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404093146551384https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404093146551384Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:51:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:49:35 GMT]]>@shimminbeg @Printdevil @Taskerland Ninja Studies (Realistic): expert skill. Ninja Studies (Cinematic): see Martial Arts.

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116404084774866268https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116404084774866268Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:49:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:41:46 GMT]]>In actuality it's the former, on grant applications it's the latter.

@shimminbeg @Taskerland @RogerBW

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404054051556578https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116404054051556578Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:41:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:37:10 GMT]]>@Printdevil @Taskerland @RogerBW My challenge turns out to be deciding whether "Ninja Studies" is simply an awful lot of points in an Expert Skill I make up, or creating optional specializations for a large number of scholarly skills (so far I have opted for "both").

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://masto.ai/users/shimminbeg/statuses/116404035958273028https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://masto.ai/users/shimminbeg/statuses/116404035958273028Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:37:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:41:47 GMT]]>arrrrgthghgh... *noises*

@RogerBW @cumush @BigJackBrass @Taskerland

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Admittedly this means all the stuff in the KS is from prior to 1988 but no one ever opens kickstarter editions, they are for shelf porn pictures.

@RogerBW @cumush @BigJackBrass @Taskerland

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116402966508014928https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://dice.camp/users/Printdevil/statuses/116402966508014928Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:05:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:03:21 GMT]]>@Printdevil @cumush @BigJackBrass @Taskerland Stats for the flooze are only in the kickstarter exclusive edition.

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116402959247704809https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116402959247704809Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:03:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One of the things that's interesting about the broader hobby is the assumptions it makes about what gamers are like. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:52:57 GMT]]>"alllll the apes are gone, and the bar-pattern is greyy... contingent after dreaming... did a bachelors degree... had a winter graduation"

*flute noises*

@vortiwife @Taskerland

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